The blogosphere is marking the third anniversary of Iraq Liberation Day with guest posts from Gold Star Mothers and other military family members fed up with MSM-bashing of the war. (Thanks to Bob Southard and Pat Hynes.) Read these:

Watching MSNBC (thank-you, Chand Sooran), as the statue is hauled down in Baghdad and celebrations break out on the streets all across northern Iraq. "This is the Berlin Wall all over again," says Chand. "Incredible." As for me, I think instead of Shelly:

"I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: 'Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear --
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.' "

-- Percy Bysshe Shelly

The cautions are not wrong, as we saw in Panama. There is fighting ahead. All True. So is the joy. So is the celebration. So is the end of the regime.

Sic semper tyrannis. Thus, always, to tyrants. In our name.

UPDATE: Hat Tip to War Photos for the picture. Donald Sensing goes one better with some great video of the statue's fall, plus stills of "the funeral shroud of tyranny," the "human shields go home" sign, etc. Start here.

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